Kyiv reacted immediately after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, accusing him of war crimes committed in Ukraine, The Guardian and CNN reported.

War in Ukraine – a maternity hospital was bombed in MariupolPhoto: Mstislav Chernov / AP / Profimedia
  • “This is just the beginning,” Andriy Yermak, the head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote in Telegram.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, welcomed the “historic” decision.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of war crimes committed in Ukraine, Reuters reports.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin on suspicion of illegal deportation of children and illegal transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

Separately, the court issued warrants for Maria Lviv-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, on the same charges.

Moscow has repeatedly denied allegations that its forces committed atrocities during the invasion of Ukraine.